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Hudson Public Schools (Student)

STARTALK Portuguese Language & Culture Summer Camp

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Portuguese

Grade Level(s)

3-5

Date(s)

June 27, 2018 – July 18, 2018

Location(s)

Quinn Middle School, Hudson, MA

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Non-residential

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The Hudson STARTALK Portuguese Language & Cultures Summer Camp, administered by Hudson Public Schools, will give students in grades 3 to 5 an opportunity to learn Portuguese and to discover the cultures of the Portuguese speaking world. The program will run from June 27 to July 18 providing students with 90 hours of instruction. Three classes will be offered: one class for heritage speakers; one for non-heritage speakers with little to no previous knowledge of the language; and a third class for returning non-heritage speakers and 5th grade students currently taking Portuguese.
Students will acquire language by engaging in real-life situations, singing, dancing, doing crafts, playing sports and going on field trips.

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Hilmar Unified School District (Student)

HUSD STARTALK Portuguese Language Academy

Language(s)

Portuguese

Grade Level(s)

K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Date(s)

June 10, 2018 – June 29, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Elim Elementary School, Hilmar, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

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The two primary outcomes for the proposed project are a positive learning experience for approximately 100 Portuguese heritage students in grades 1-8 ranging in language ability from novice to intermediate, along with a professional development experience for 15 Portuguese language and culture educators that will increase their language and cultural knowledge as well as their pedagogical content knowledge to successfully implement standards-based language instruction in their classrooms. The students will participate in approximately 75 hours of instruction in a three-week program that will be incorporated into the Hilmar Unified School District's summer school program.

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The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (Student)

Speak and Connect

Language(s)

Arabic, Portuguese, Russian

Grade Level(s)

9-12

Date(s)

July 9, 2018 – July 27, 2018: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), El Paso, TX

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Non-residential

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Speak and Connect is a three-week summer language program designed to introduce 50 high school students to Arabic, Portuguese and Russian language. They will be divided into five groups of 10. The program will have two sections for Arabic, two sections for Portuguese and one section for Russian. Selected students will participate in 90 hours of language instruction. Summer language acquisition will be maintained and expanded during the subsequent school year through participation in virtual and face-to-face language and cultural awareness sessions. Upon completion of the program students will have developed a novice/mid level of Arabic, Portuguese and Russian.

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University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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Residential

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The 2018 University of Utah (UU) Portuguese Startalk student program is an exciting opportunity for 30 rising seventh-grade Portuguese immersion students in Utah to push past the limitations of their classrooms and see how advanced levels of Portuguese language proficiency can open new doors for college and career readiness. A primary goal of the program is to provide the antidote to student attrition in dual language immersion programs, which commonly occurs as students move from the elementary to secondary school, by providing them with exciting ways to apply their growing language fluency to new subjects – in this case the Amazon, biodiversity, human rights and environmental issues. The program will feature three weeks of blended learning with 60 hours of Portuguese instruction and collaboration nestled between 30 hours of online, distance-learning curriculum. Students, including both heritage and non-heritage Portuguese speakers, will enter the student camp primarily at the intermediate-low proficiency level. During the camp experiences, student participants will engage in advanced-low discourse as they research issues of biodiversity, human rights, and environmental protection; compare and contrast Brazilian and American culture; discuss and debate controversial topics; and write informational essays and present group projects related to the Amazon Rainforest.

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE